Tristan Taormino

A practical guide to making sexually open arrangements work outlines options for transforming monogamous relationships into effective polyamorous ones, in a reference that addresses such topics as boundary setting, child-raising, and conflict resolution. Original.

A Guide to Creating and Sustaining Open Relationships

Opening Up

Mireille Miller-Young

Celine  Shimizu

Constance  Penley

The Feminist Porn Book celebrates the power of desire, turning the spotlight on an industry where feminism is thriving.

The Politics of Producing Pleasure

The Feminist Porn Book

The Ultimate Guide to Kink is the definitive guide A-Z of BDSM. This long-awaited kink bible includes tips and tricks for novices and experienced players alike. Featuring how-to tutorials, sprinkled with lots of creative ideas and examples - this is a unique guide to sexual experimentation and exploration of fantasy. Includes thoughtful essays that probe the psychology and politics of submission, dominance, masochism and sadism. The Ultimate Guide to Kink is hotly-tipped to define the category for the next decade.

BDSM, Role Play and the Erotic Edge

The Ultimate Guide to Kink

Karen Green

A GIRL's GUIDE to TAKING OVER the WORLD,Writings from the Girl Zine Revolution,.

Writings From The Girl Zine Revolution

Girls Guide to Taking Over the World

From the founding editor of Cleis Press' bestselling Best Lesbian Erotica series (also available from Turnaround) comes a daring new project - a collection of erotica by and for transfolk, FTMs, MTFs, genderqueers, gender outlaws and two-spirited, intersex and gender-variant people. Many of the characters populating the pages of this sizzling collection consciously reinvent, re-imagine and play with gender during sex. The names they give themselves or each other during sex can taunt and tease - but they always signify the presence of gender.

Trans and Genderqueer Erotica

Take Me There

Does the swagger of a sure-footed butch make you swoon? Do your knees go weak when you see a femme straighten her stockings? A duet between two sorts of women, butch/femme is a potent sexual dynamic. Tristan Taormino chose her favorite butch/femme stories from the Best Lesbian Erotica series, which has sold over 200,000 copies in the 16 years she was editor. And if you think you know what goes in in the bedroom between femmes and butches, these 22 shorts will delight you with erotic surprises. In Joy Parks's delicious "Sweet Thing," the new femme librarian in town shows a butch baker a new trick in bed. The stud in "Tag!," by D. Alexandria, finds her baby girl after a chase in the woods by scent alone. And the girl in a pleated skirt gets exactly what she wants from her Daddy in Peggy Munson's "The Rock Wall." Sometimes She Lets Me shows that it's all about attitude ? predicting who will wind up on top isn't easy in stories by S. Bear Bergman, Rosalind Christine Lloyd, Samiya A. Bashir, and many more.

Best Butch Femme Erotica

Sometimes She Lets Me

Tristan Taormino can tell you everything you want to know about the world of kink, and more! Operating on the pleasure principle, 50 Shades of Kink is a truly helpful how-to that is the perfect beginner's guide to the realm of kinky sex and can also serve as a wonderful refresher course. Whether readers want to get up close and personal with blindfolds, crops, and paddles or are just looking for some inspiration to keep things fresh in the bedroom, 50 Shades of Kink is ideal for everyone and their lover(s). Included are techniques and creative ideas for bondage, spanking, flogging, sensation play, and rough sex; lessons on how to eroticize power, cultivate deeper connections, and incorporate kink into one's sex life; and role-playing fantasies from the popular to the taboo.

An Introduction to BDSM

50 Shades of Kink

Constance Penley

Celine Parreñas Shimizu

“This thrilling anthology brings together scholars, producers, and fans of feminist pornography to define an emerging movement of gender and sexual visionaries.” —Lisa Duggan The Feminist Porn Book brings together for the first time writings by feminists in the adult industry and research by feminist porn scholars. This book investigates not only how feminists understand pornography, but also how feminists do porn—that is, direct, act in, produce, and consume one of the world’s most lucrative and growing industries. With original contributions by Susie Bright, Candida Royalle, Betty Dodson, Nina Hartley, Buck Angel, Lynn Comella, Jane Ward, Ariane Cruz, Kevin Heffernan, and more, The Feminist Porn Book updates the arguments of the porn wars of the 1980s, which sharply divided the women’s movement, and identifies pornography as a form of expression and labor in which women and racial and sexual minorities produce power and pleasure. “Besides being extremely thought-provoking, this must-read collection is accessible to all readers, and the topic inherently makes it engaging and fun.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review

Described by Salon as 'the bible of female anal sex,' The Ultimate Guide to Anal Sex for Women is a comprehensive and creative guide to anal pleasure. Tristan Taormino offers the kind of informed reassurance that can encourage even an absolute beginner to explore this nerve-rich part of the body, either alone or with a partner of any gender. Beginning by dispelling common myths about anal eroticism, Taormino goes on to illustrate anatomy, give tips on building trust and communicating desires, providing reliable, easy-to-understand information.

The Ultimate Guide to Anal Sex for Women

Take Me There is a passion project for Tristan Taormino, who presents erotica by, for, and about transfolk, FTMs, MTFs, genderqueers, gender outlaws, as well as two-spirit, intersex, and gender-variant people in her newest anthology. Among the diverse array of voices in Take Me There, one important theme running throughout the stories is the power of seeing and being seen. It’s not simply about passing, but about being acknowledged and desired in a sexual context. Affirmation and want collide in Andrea Zanin’s story of a baby butch dyke and the transwoman she picks up in a small-town café. Likewise, the main character in Helen Boyd’s “All Girl Action” longs to be touched as a woman by other queer women. The characters of these stories are ready and willing to go there — and they do, over and over again.

A steamy collection of lesbian erotica includes sensual stories by Madeleine Oh, Peggy Munson, and Elaine Miller, among other writers. Original.

Best Lesbian Erotica 2005

A sexy new collection for women who crave erotic restraint. Tristan Taormino presents a cornucopia of lesbian kink — tantalizing tales rich in variety and saucy details of girls put in their place — and held there firmly. In Skian McGuire’s “Phoebe’s Undercover Bon Voyage,” a group of well-equipped tops indulge a friend’s cop fetish before she — a real cop — goes undercover. In Elaine Miller’s “Fee Fie Foe Femme,” a girly-girl reaps a sweet punishment for refusing to mess up her raspberry pink lipstick. Whether readers dream of surrendering to a lover or of taking control, Best Lesbian Bondage Erotica offers plenty of erotic inspiration.

Best Lesbian Bondage Erotica

Tristan Taormino presents a cornucopia of lesbian kink — tantalizing tales rich in variety and saucy details of girls put in their place — and held there firmly. In Skian McGuire’s “Phoebe’s Undercover Bon Voyage,” a group of well-equipped tops indulge a friend’s cop fetish before she — a real cop — goes undercover. In Elaine Miller’s “Fee Fie Foe Femme,” a girly-girl reaps a sweet punishment for refusing to mess up her raspberry pink lipstick. Whether readers dream of surrendering to a lover or of taking control, Best Lesbian Bondage Erotica offers plenty of erotic inspiration.

Jewelle Gomez

As irreverent and sexy as last year's edition, Best Lesbian Erotica 1997 promises stories that may even outshine works by that list of contenders, w hich included such luminaries as DOrothy Allison, Pat Califia, Kate Bornstein, Lucy Jane Bledsoe and lots of hot, new voices.

Best Lesbian Erotica 1997

The sister release of Best Gay Erotica 2004, Best Lesbian Erotica 2004 is the ninth annual collection in Cleis's successful series featuring the steamiest, most thought-provoking lesbian sex writing. This selection of the year's finest erotica represents a wide range of styles and voices journeying into the world of lesbian sex with uncommon, edgy stories that push lesbian lust and desire to new heights. This year's stories are selected by award-winning author Michelle Tea, whose gritty, personal writing has earned her the accolade 'a modern day Beat' - Publishers Weekly.

Best Lesbian Erotica 2004

A journey into the world of lesbian sex with uncommon, edgy stories that push lesbian lust and desire to new heights. Edited by bestselling author, editor and adult video director and performer, Tristan Taormino, and selected and introduced by the dynamic poet and performance artist Ali Liebegott, this latest edition of the bestselling series is sensual, inventive and breathtaking.

Best Lesbian Erotica 2008

This series has been acclaimed for its high literary quality as much for its steamy and inspired plots. The exceptional stories are from the second five years of the series. Contributors include Cecilia Tan, MR Daniel, Cara Bruce and Rachel Kramer Bussel.

Best of Best Lesbian Erotica 2

Winner of the Lambda Literary Award for Erotica in 2003 and 2004, Cleis’ Best Lesbian Erotica series is the gold standard for erotic lesbian fiction, and this year's collection is no exception. Best Lesbian Erotica 2009 journeys into the world of hot women-on-women action with edgy, unusual stories that push lesbian lust and desire to new heights. Edited by best-selling author Tristan Taormino and selected and introduced by the noted author, playwright, and poet Joan Larkin, this latest edition of America’s most popular lesbian erotica series is smart, sensual, inventive, and breathtaking. From threesomes to gender-bending to shedding one's wholesome image to indulge in more visceral pursuits, the women in these stories reveal all their pleasures in memorable tales that are both sexy and lyrical.

Best Lesbian Erotica 2009

Each year, guest judges select the best in sexy literate, queer writing - sometimes dark, sometimes perverse, often strange and irreverent, frequently unconventional, but always compelling, provocative and hot. Now, the 'Best of the Best' is collected in two companion volumes, Best of the Best Lesbian Erotica, and Best of the Best Gay Erotica. Here, contributers include Heather Lewis, Joan Nestle, Pat Califia, and Cecilia Tan.

Best of the Best Lesbian Erotica

Cheryl Clarke

A 2003 edition of lesbian erotica features a collection of top writings in the tradition of such writers as Dorothy Allison, Pat Califia, and Heather Lewis. Original.

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